qasida

English

Alternative forms

• qaṣīda

Etymology

From Arabic قصيدة (qaṣīda).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kaˈsiːdə/
• (US) IPA: /kəˈsidə/

Noun

qasida (plural qasidas)

1. An Arabic or Persian elegiac monorhyme poem, usually having a tripartite structure.
   • 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:

     He was delighted to hear some music and listened with emotion to the wild qasidas that the old man sang – songs of the Arab canon full of the wild heart-sickness of the desert.

   • 2000: María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus

     The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.

Translations

Arabic or Persian poem

• Arabic: قصيدة (ar) f
• German: Kasside (de) f

• Persian: قصیده (fa)
• Urdu: قصیدہ (ur)